CHESS PLAYER

Adolf Albin

1848 - 1920

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Adolf Albin (14 September 1848 – 22 March 1920) was a Romanian chess player. He is best known for the countergambit that bears his name and for authoring the first chess book written in Romanian. Read more on Wikipedia

His biography is available in different languages on Wikipedia. Adolf Albin is the 89th most popular chess player (down from 76th in 2019), the 242nd most popular biography from Romania (down from 230th in 2019) and the most popular Romanian Chess Player.

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Among CHESS PLAYERS

Among chess players, Adolf Albin ranks 89 out of 461. Before him are Harry Nelson Pillsbury, Vladimir Kramnik, Viswanathan Anand, Louis Paulsen, Gideon Ståhlberg, and Ljubomir Ljubojević. After him are Larry Evans, Rashid Nezhmetdinov, Edward Lasker, Friedrich Sämisch, Luděk Pachman, and Rudolf Charousek.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1848, Adolf Albin ranks 67. Before him are Francis Darwin, Maryana Marrash, Franz von Soxhlet, Fritz von Uhde, Maria Bernarda Bütler, and Boris Stürmer. After him are Heinrich Hübschmann, Lilla Cabot Perry, Francisco Pradilla Ortiz, Robert Planquette, Lilli Lehmann, and Kurd Lasswitz. Among people deceased in 1920, Adolf Albin ranks 68. Before him are Remus von Woyrsch, Maciej Sulkiewicz, Grigory Potanin, Kliment Timiryazev, Luís of Orléans-Braganza, and Delfim Moreira. After him are Nataliya Kobrynska, Sarada Devi, Vladimir Kappel, John Gilbert Baker, William Chester Minor, and Karl Binding.

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In Romania

Among people born in Romania, Adolf Albin ranks 242 out of 844. Before him are Tudor Arghezi (1880), Mircea Diaconu (1949), Liviu Rebreanu (1885), Reuven Feuerstein (1921), Elena Văcărescu (1864), and Ecaterina Teodoroiu (1894). After him are Theodor Aman (1831), Anca Petrescu (1949), Ion Heliade Rădulescu (1802), Nicolae Titulescu (1882), Titu Maiorescu (1840), and Ivan Patzaichin (1949).

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Among CHESS PLAYERS In Romania

Among chess players born in Romania, Adolf Albin ranks 1. After him are Florin Gheorghiu (1944), Cristina Adela Foișor (1967), Liviu-Dieter Nisipeanu (1976), and Constantin Lupulescu (1984).

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